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Word: trunksful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hacking through the tangled jungle of purchasing, priorities and production, U. S. defense workers, from OPM down to field buyers, see plenty of trees, fallen trunks, clogged footpaths. Great danger to defense and to the future economy of the U. S. is that they are too busy with the trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE WEEK: PPB | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

"G" and "Bea." For some time Charlot's Revue was mostly hard chorus work for Gertie. But twice when Beatrice Lillie left the show (once on falling from a horse, again on getting married) her understudy Gertie had her chance to shine. In 1924 Chariot's Revue came to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Gertie the Great | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

No one is quite so heavily sentimental as an old college athlete, especially an old footballer. To Manhattan's Dean Hill (Georgia Tech '12), football is the old-time religion. He helped found New York's Touchdown Club to foster good-fellowship among Varsity lettermen, takes flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Footballiana | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

At a wayside station on the shore of Lake Superior Reporter R. G. Anglin of the Toronto Star swung aboard. To him, for the first time since she left Tokyo, Anne Françoise Cox told her story. She had not dared to go to their house after Jimmy died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Blast All of You! | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

Last week, while most record buyers eyed the month's output of commercial jazz and symphonic music, plenty of country folk, and a great many juke-box operators, were more interested in the latest offerings of Messrs. Satherly and Kapp. Decca, which identifies such discs simply as "hillbilly" and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: September Records | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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